Kroptik:
What is this exactly? o.o And I agree with Cosmic.
veehive:
--- Quote from: Kroptik on December 24, 2009, 04:20:24 AM ---What is this exactly? o.o --- End quote ---
It all starts with VOCALOID2 (the computer singing program) and the creation of Miku Hatsune as a spokescharacter for Crypton Future Media's voice-sampling plug-in for it. Her success lead to an animation program, Miku Miku Dance, allowing her fans to create videos of her singing & dancing to those songs. Variations on Miku's design appeared, followed by new Vocaloids, and now characters from other anime (I see Yui Hirasawa from K-On! and Chiyo-dad from Azumanga Daioh amidst the dancers).
The song, "Seikan Hikou", is an insert song from Macross--Frontier.
Urusei0Yatsura:
I have heard of the voice-music synthesiser computer programme Vocaloid made by Yamaha that allows users to make characters sing music by inputting melody and lyrics. The first and most widely known character is Miku Hatsune from voice sampling of voice actress Saki Fujita. Miku was the first vocaloid character, limited to singing in Japanese only; several more have appeared in later versions. Later characters are capable of singing in Japanese and English.
I don't know if any of these characters are capable of speaking normally. I wonder if characters from anime can be sampled? If you could get them to speak you could replace their voices in anime.
The first time I saw Miku I thought it was fan art of Lum. There are some vocaloid renditions of Urusei Yatsura songs on youtube although I can only find one at the moment and its not a great example.